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On December 24, 2014, the National Health and Family Planning Committee of China issued the National Food Safety Standard for Food Additive Use (GB2760-2014), which will be implemented on May 24, 2015

The Economy and Trade Department of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) held training sessions for provinces and municipalities on grain import TRQ in December 2014.

Modeling Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone, China officially inaugurated three new free trade zones in Guangdong, Fujian and Tianjin.

Organized by China Food Additives & Ingredients Association and with endorsement of USDA, the Food Ingredients China 2015 was held in Shanghai on April 1-3.

The United States exported a record $9.7 billion of forest products in fiscal year 2014. Among U.S. agricultural exports, only corn and soybeans had higher export values.

In MY14/15, China lost its spot as the world largest cotton producer to India.

On February 1, 2015, China issued a major policy document on agriculture calling for a coordinated response to rising production costs and internationally uncompetitive prices.

In the past decade, one of the most apparent trends agricultural trade patterns has been the growth in agricultural trade between developing countries or so-called “South-South trade.”

China produced and consumed more than half of the world’s pork supply in 2014.

China continued to dominate the global oilseeds market in MY13/14, especially in soybeans where it took 65 percent of total world exports, and 30 percent of total U.S. soybean production.

China is the world’s second largest poultry producer, and a major destination for U.S. poultry.

Over the past five years, North China’s imported fruit market has continued to boom as a result of an evergrowing number of direct shipments.